Top Virologist On Yoga's Role In Preventing Lifestyle Diseases
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Dr Gagandeep Kang was honoured with the 'Health Leader Of The Year' award at the NDTV Indian Of The Year awards.
India has, in the past, tended to borrow solutions from the West and is finally being able to frame its own questions about health and seek to answer them - which was evident during the Covid pandemic - Dr Gagandeep Kang, one of India's top virologists, has said.
Dr Kang, who was honoured with the 'Health Leader Of The Year' award at the NDTV Indian Of The Year awards on Friday also spoke about the impact of long Covid and the importance of yoga in tackling the rise of lifestyle diseases.
Speaking after receiving the award, Dr Kang said, "In India, we tend to borrow our solutions from the West and what we have been trying to do over the past few decades is for us to frame our own questions about health in India and seek to answer them. I am really excited about the fact that we are finally doing that; we saw it during Covid, but I hope that this is a revolution that will continue because we do need to rely on ourselves to be able to solve our problems," she said.
